Post Arab revolutions

Section: Political Books

Number of pages: 384 pages

The book “After the Arab Revolutions” contains studies by researchers from Palestine, Sudan, Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Morocco. Their studies all focus on the topic of democratic transition in the Arab world and its problems, the degree of influence of the Western model of democratic transition in the post-Arab Spring era, issues of revolution and colonialism, patterns of authoritarian regimes, the role of female actors and elites in democratic transition, the relationship between religion and democratic transition, and the challenges of security sector reform.

The book's conclusions emphasized the importance of transition studies and their centrality in the field of comparative politics. The contributors discussed the hypotheses and statements of transition theories, clarifying the errors and misunderstandings prevalent around them, as a prelude to positive criticism that rejects certain hypotheses or calls for their review, and testing theories and hypotheses by applying them to Arab or international experiences to come up with results that help in reformulating the theory.